Nicole Schram Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Nikki is a member of the firm’s Immigration and Business/Real Estate practice groups. Nikki has extensive experience helping U.S. companies and their foreign national employees in U.S. immigration matters, including securing temporary work visas (such as H-1B, L, TN, J, O), permanent labor certification, and lawful permanent resident (or “green card”) status for foreign-born workers and their families. She also advises companies on immigration compliance programs.Further, as the former in-house counsel to a prominent real estate brokerage, Nikki is a skilled advocate when representing individuals and companies of all sizes in real estate and business sale transactions. She is adept at handling real estate matters such as land contracts, easements, land divisions, zoning changes, and conditional use permits.

Middleton, Wi

Madison, Wisconsin

*Served as the first and only in-house counsel to the world's top producing Century 21 real estate brokerage, with 100+ offices and 1800+ agents in five states. *Facilitated mergers and acquisitions: created new subsidiary business entities, oversaw due diligence, drafted asset purchase agreements and employment agreements.*Managed commercial leasing for 80+ offices: negotiated new leases and renewals, monitored notice deadlines, recouped over $44,000 in overpayment.*Negotiated and managed complex commercial contracts including NDAs, SaaS agreements and service/sales agreements with third party vendors.*Resolved disputes: facilitated settlement and dismissal of consumer complaints, managed outside litigation counsel.*Provided counsel to the company's top executives and training to employees to ensure compliance with federal, state and local employment and real estate laws.*Created the Affiliated Foundation- a public charity: drafted nonprofit bylaws, applied for and received IRS 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, registered as a public charity in five states, served as Secretary, advised Board of Directors on permissible and impermissible charitable gaming.

Denver, Colorado

Practiced in highly-respected three-attorney general civil law firm, earning the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell "AV- Preeminent" peer review rating from peers and judges.*Commercial litigation: litigated commercial cases in state and federal court, drafted pleadings and dispositive motions, propounded and responded to discovery requests, took and defended depositions of parties and experts.*Business advising: created business entities, drafted operating agreements, bylaws, partnership agreements and employment agreements, advised in the winding-up of dissolved entities. *Appellate practice: authored briefs and presented oral arguments in cases successful before the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court.*Estate Planning: Created personal estate plans including Wills, business succession planning, testamentary trusts and Powers of Attorney.

Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa

Juris Doctorate

Activities and Societies: Doman International Law Society; Phillip Jessup International Moot Court Completed 40-hour mediation training.

Bachelor Of Arts, Behavioral Science And Law

Graduated with Academic Distinction- top 7% of graduating class